Posted: 2010-01-31 05:23 PM / Updated: 2010-02-01 @ 02:43 EST

Winners in the Gospel category at the 52nd Annual GRAMMY® Awards were announced during the pre-telecast portion of the awards show held at the Los Angeles Convention Center.

Best Urban/Alternative Performance nominee Tonéx had the honour of presenting the Gospel category.

Here is the complete list of winners in the Gospel field:

Field 11 — Gospel

Category 50

Best Gospel Performance
(For solo, duo, group as collaborative performances. Singles or tracks with vocal containing Gospel lyrics. All genres of Gospel music are eligible.)

• Wait On The Lord
  Donnie McClurkin Featuring Karen Clark Sheard
  Track from: We All Are One (Live In Detroit)
  [Verity]
  

Category 51

Best Gospel Song
(A Songwriter(s) Award. For Song Eligibility Guidelines see Category #3. (Artist names appear in parentheses.) Singles or Tracks only.)

• God In Me
  Erica Campbell, Tina Campbell & Warryn Campbell, songwriters (Mary Mary Featuring Kierra "KiKi" Sheard)
  Track from: The Sound
  [Columbia Records; Publishers: EMI April Music, Wet Ink Red Music, That’s Plum Song, It’s Tea Tyme.]
  

Category 52

Best Rock Or Rap Gospel Album
(For albums containing 51% or more playing time of VOCAL tracks.)

• Live Revelations
  Third Day
  [Essential Records]
  

Category 53

Best Pop/Contemporary Gospel Album
(For albums containing 51% or more playing time of VOCAL tracks.)

• The Power Of One
  Israel Houghton
  [Integrity Music]
  

Category 54

Best Southern, Country, Or Bluegrass Gospel Album
(For albums containing 51% or more playing time of VOCAL tracks.)

• Jason Crabb
  Jason Crabb
  [Spring Hill Music Group]
  

Category 55

Best Traditional Gospel Album
(For albums containing 51% or more playing time of VOCAL tracks.)

• Oh Happy Day
  (Various Artists)
  Bill Hearn, Ken Levitan, Ken Pennell, Jack Rovner & Cedric Thompson, producers
  [EMI Gospel/Vector Recordings]
  

Category 56

Best Contemporary R&B Gospel Album
(For albums containing 51% or more playing time of VOCAL tracks.)

• Audience Of One
  Heather Headley
  [EMI Gospel]
  

Related winners in other categories include:

Category 39

Best Country Collaboration With Vocals
(For a collaborative performance, with vocals, by artists who do not normally perform together. Singles or Tracks only.)

• I Told You So
  Carrie Underwood & Randy Travis
  [19/Arista Nashville]
  

Karen Clark-Sheard picked up her fourth career Grammy® for her collaboration with Donnie McClurkin on “Wait On The Lord”, winner of Best Gospel Performance. In his acceptance speech, McClurkin reminded us to keep Haiti in our prayers.

A very pregnant Best Gospel Song winner Erica Campbell of Mary Mary mentioned that she and her sister Tina Campbell did not like “God In Me” very much. However, producer Warryn Campbell went ahead with the recording of it.

Tai Anderson was the sole representative of Third Day in attendance as several members were stuck due to the heavy snow storms in the mid-west. “We’re a Christian rock band from Atlanta, Georgia, who worked with a Jewish producer from Philadelphia in L.A… it made for an interesting combination,” says Anderson in his acceptance speech. He recounts how producer Howard Benson challenged the band to write songs that meant something to him as he did not “know the vocabulary”. The result is music that “cut to the heart”.

Both Israel Houghton and Aaron Lindsey both expressed their love for their wives who were in the audience.

After picking up Best Southern, Country, Or Bluegrass Gospel Album for his self-titled debut solo project, Jason Crabb expressed that he ”... never would have dreamed that this would ever happen to a small town Kentucky boy like myself, but God fulfills a lot of dreams.”

The 52nd GRAMMY Awards took place live on Sunday, January 31st at Staples Center in Los Angeles and was broadcast in HDTV and 5.1 Surround Sound on the CBS (U.S.) and Global (Canada) Television Networks. The show was also supported on radio via Westwood One worldwide, and covered online at GRAMMY.com and CBS.com, and on YouTube.

A complete list of winners and video of interviews with Jeremy Camp and Tai Anderson on the red carpet can be found at Grammy.com.

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